Some plants are adapted
to obtain nutrients from animal matter. The best known of these is
probably the Venus fly trap, but more impressive is the pitcher plant
Nepenthes rafflesiana, found in southeast Asia. This plant grows to
30 feet tall and may have pitchers 12 inches in length, usually crammed
full of digested insects.

Pitcher plants also
eat small mammals and reptiles that attempt to steal the insects from
the pitcher.